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Citation 2023 Phys. World 36 (12) 3iii
DOI 10.1088/2058-7058/36/12/03
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What makes a belly flop dive so unpleasant? Physicists from Brown University found that dropping a cylinder with a soft "nose" into a body of water had a higher impact force because the vibrations of the body itself compounded the impact with the water.